There is a new phone that has come out to challenge the dominance of the IPhone and it is brought to you by Google. Well, they create the software for the phone, but the actual hardware is made by an assortment of different manufacturers. A couple of years ago, it was obvious that the IPhone was gaining a lions share of the smart phone market. It became a two way race between them and Rimm, who makes the ever popular blackberry line of phones. Whoever won this race, would be in control of how online media was consumed on the mobile phone. Google decided that they were not going to sit this one out. So they got together some of their best software engineers and put together a mobile phone operating system that was just as good as their competitors. This OS is known as Android.

Unlike Apple, who decided that they needed to control both the software side of making the phone and the hardware side, Google only deals with the software side. They offered an open sourced operating system named Android and allowed anyone to work on it. Whoever wanted to, could use the system for their own projects. This is why there are so many versions of the phone out in the public. Because each vendor has the opportunity to place the features that they want to support on the phone. Also, there have been several upgrades to the actual operating system itself, since the first genration of Android was released. Some of the upgrades have introduced major feature changes to the phone, while others have only been minor. It is up to each cell phone manufacturer to decide if they are going to upgrade or not. Most of them do, though some are faster than others. This is the one thing that you do not get with the IPhone, choice. There are a lot of choices in the Android world, so you might ask, which phone should you pick?

Even though there is a great deal of selection that you can pick with an Android based phone, they really are not that much different. The biggest difference that you will find is which one is using the latest version of the operating system. If you do not care about that and already like the features on a phone that you see, then you will be alright just picking that phone. If you want the latest features that the operating system provides, then you might want to go with a phone such as the Nexus One, or even the Droid. They have brought a lot of attention to themselves by being cutting edge. One would think that they would like to keep up that perception by having the latest technology. So if you are looking to keep ahead of the curve, then these two phones would be the one that I suggest out of the Android family line. You might also want to pay attention to the service provider of the particular phone that you pick. Make sure that it has good coverage in your area.

So hopefully, we have answered why there are so many Android phones and which one should you pick. If you’re not the type of person who cares about the latest feature, only the ones that make you happy, then you will have a wide assortment of phones to pick from. If you want the latest and greatest, then go with a Nexus One or Droid.